Dirty Harry is a 1971 American neo-noir action thriller film produced and directed by Don Siegel, the first in the Dirty Harry series.
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18 Facts About Dirty Harry
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Dirty Harry was a critical and commercial success and set the style for a whole genre of police films.
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Dirty Harry is assigned to deliver the money, wearing a radio earpiece so Gonzalez can secretly follow him.
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Dirty Harry uses a concealed knife to stab Scorpio in the leg, but he escapes.
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Dirty Harry learns of Scorpio's hospital visit and a doctor reveals to him that the killer lives in a room at Kezar Stadium.
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Dirty Harry finds him there and chases Scorpio, shooting him in the leg.
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Dirty Harry waits for him, then jumps onto the roof of the bus from an overpass.
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Dirty Harry aims his revolver and reprises his ultimatum about losing count of his shots.
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Script, titled Dead Right, by the husband-and-wife team of Harry Julian Fink and Rita M Fink, was originally about a hard-edged New York City police inspector, Harry Callahan, who is determined to stop Travis, a serial killer, even if he has to skirt the law and accepted standards of policing, blurring the distinction between criminal and cop, to address the question as to how far a free, democratic society can go to protect itself.
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The role of Dirty Harry Callahan was offered to John Wayne and Frank Sinatra, and later to Robert Mitchum, Steve McQueen, and Burt Lancaster.
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Sinatra was 55 at the time and since the character of Dirty Harry Callahan was originally written as a man in his mid-to-late 50s, Sinatra fit the character profile.
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Dirty Harry believed the role and plot contradicted his belief in collective responsibility for criminal and social justice and the protection of individual rights.
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At the 44th Academy Awards, feminists protested outside the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, holding up banners which read messages such as "Dirty Harry is a Rotten Pig".
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Dirty Harry was selected in 2008 by Empire magazine as one of The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time.
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Benefit world premiere of Dirty Harry was held at Loews Theaters' Market Street Cinema in San Francisco on December 22,1971.
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Dirty Harry made its high-definition debut with the 2008 Blu-ray Disc.
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Dirty Harry Callahan was selected as the 17th greatest movie hero on 100 Years.
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Dirty Harry was on the ballot for several other AFI's 100 series lists including 100 Years.
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